• Title
  Photographs of the Perkins family, Morwenstowe Homestead, Wallaga Lake, New South Wales, ca. 1898-ca. 1909 / photographed by a member of the Perkins family
• Creator
  Perkins family
• Call number
  PXB 1729
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1898-ca. 1909
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  1007862
• Physical Description
  13 photographs - albumen
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  The Perkins family settled in the Cobargo district in 1898, at Morwenstowe homestead on Wallaga Lake. In 1898 Mrs Perkins is recorded as a school teacher at public school in Cobargo, where her daughter Ivy Perkins attended school. Ivy Perkins later became a school teacher in Corunna, north of Tilba Tilba. In 1909 she married Ernest Napthali at Morwenstowe homestead. The Tilba Tilba and Wallaga Lake area is home to the traditional owners the Yuin people.
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file.
• Collection history
  By descent through the Perkins family in the United States until around 2010, when the photographs were sold in a charity auction. Then purchased by the previous owner in New York, 2011.
• Scope and Content
  13 albumen silver photographs taken by the Perkins family, in and around the remote Wallaga Lake, Tilba Tilba and Cobargo region of New South Wales, between ca. 1900-ca. 1909. Includes family and group portraits, several views of the family homestead, school groups, farming and land clearing, and various boating activities on the lake, family outings and views of Cobargo and the Tumut River.
  
  All of the images have inscriptions in ink on the verso and 2 have been mounted on card.
  
  [1.] 'Glimpse of the Tumut River'
  [2.] 'On the flats, "Morwenstowe"
  [3.] 'Long plain. Kiandra 6000 feet above sea level'
  [4.] 'The last load of wool (of the season) from the mountains, Tumut'
  [5.] 'Clarence ploughing on the farm "Morwenstowe"
  [6.] "Morwenstowe" in its earlier days. Here you see the hill in background being cleared. Now it is cleared, as you see in the other photo of home'
  [7]. "Morwenstowe"
  [8.] 'Schnapper Point, Wallaga Lake'
  [9.] 'Our home "Morwenstowe". The water is part of Wallaga Lake'
  [10.] 'Return of boating party from Wallaga Lakes, photographed down by water at "Morwenstowe"
  [11.] 'Sister Ivy'
  [12.] 'Corunna School'. [Portrait of school children at Corunna School showing Ivy as school teacher and non-indigenous and Aboriginal pupils]
  [13.] 'The cross roads, Cobargo'
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Inscriptions on verso.
• Date note
  
  Photographs are undated. Dates based on family's arrival in Wallaga Lake in 1898 and the wedding of Ivy Perkins in 1909.
• Subject
  Perkins family
  Farms--New South Wales.
  Schools--New South Wales.
  Aboriginal Australians--Children.
  
• Place
  Morwenstowe homestead (Wallaga Lake, N.S.W.)
  Wallaga Lake (N.S.W.)
  Tilba Tilba (N.S.W.)
  Cobargo (N.S.W.)
  
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